The New York Times

For me, a Korean-American adopted to the United States the year of South Korea’s first Olympics in 1988, the 2018 encore has been an occasion I’ve long anticipated. Now, three decades later, the Pyeongchang Winter Games are nearly upon us. And my life so far, book ended by Olympics, feels close to coming full circle.

The XXIII Winter Games, set among the temple-dotted mountains of South Korea’s northeastern Gangwon Province, will take place February 9 to the 25th. ...

Public Radio International

Ha Yoon-na always believed in feminism, but never wanted to call herself a “feminist.” In South Korea, that word carries a negative connotation, and Ha, a 30-year-old book translator, worried she’d be judged and marginalized. ...

Next City

Nearly three decades after the fall of communism in Poland, the most visible architectural structure of its capital city is still a Soviet skyscraper.

The Palace of Culture and Science, built between 1952 and 1955, was ostensibly a gift from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to the Polish people. At the time, Stalin was consolidating his grip on Poland with government purges and ...

BBC

At Incheon International Airport (ICN), outside South Korea’s capital Seoul, a team of congenial staff will help you find your boarding gate or escort you to the nearest lounge. They’re well trained, well behaved and quadrilingual to boot – but they’re not so good at small talk. That’s because they’re robots.
The robotic airport guides, developed by Korean tech titan LG Electronics, have been working alongside human employees since the end of July 2017. Standing 1.4m tall, they move ...

Next City

explorepartsunknown.com

1. It’s not arrogance: it’s pride. “You know kimchi, yes?” “Delicious, yes?” Questions like these are offerings meant to welcome, but also to impress. This is how Koreans express national pride. It is earnest and often endearing.

innovationsjournal.net

How withdrawal of international financial institutions is harming vulnerable people — and may increase the very risks of financial crimes and terrorism financing that de-risking is meant to solve.
In the fourth article in our partnership with Meridian International Center’s series on The Digital ...

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